physics

Gemini generated image of a man's hand reaching for a door know, showing static electricity

We now know how static electricity is created

We now know how static electricity is created after scientists explain how rubbing a surface creates electrical current

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Scientists Uncover the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Albert Einstein in 1921. Text says Einstein's revolutionary equation about the equivalence of matter and energy E=MC2 is published on September 27, 1905
A card showing Marie Curie's opened research notebook. Text on right says "Marie Curie, celebrated as the 'mother of modern physics,' passed away from aplastic anemia, an uncommon condition associated with significant exposure to her renowned discoveries, the radioactive elements polonium and radium. Even after more than a century, a significant portion of her personal belongings, such as her clothing, furniture, cookbooks, and laboratory notes, retain their radioactive properties. Her laboratory research notebooks are contaminated with radium 226 and therefore are stored in lead-lined boxes at Bibliotheque National in Paris, France, where they are considered as national and scientific treasure. Image: Wellcome Library". By 360onhistory.com
Universe. Waves moving aways from a source of bright light in centre.

Gravity could have transformed into light in the early Universe, new study suggests

Gravity could have transformed into light in the early Universe, new study suggests, but only if space-time behaves in just the right way.

Researchers used the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to create this new map of the dark matter. The orange regions show where there is more mass; purple where there is less or none. The typical features are hundreds of millions of light years across. The whitish band shows where contaminating light from dust in our Milky Way galaxy, measured by the Planck satellite, obscures a deeper view. The new map uses light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) essentially as a backlight to silhouette all the matter between us and the Big Bang.

New Dark Matter Map Validates Einstein General Theory of Relativity

Researchers used the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to create a new map of dark matter and this map validates Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. The orange regions show where there is more ma...

Time lapse photography by Chuttersnap on Unsplash

Why does time change when traveling close to the speed of light? 

Why does time change when traveling close to the speed of light? A physicist answers.

Image of a black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 and its event horizon, taken by the Event Horizon telescope in 2019. Photograph: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/EPA

Do black holes have hair?

Scientists ask the question do black holes have hair? And according to a new study with new mathematics the answer is yes, they have quantum hair.

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